Middle Tennessee State University Center of Educational Media & Teaching with Primary Sources Across Tennessee. Presenter. "Not Just a Fairytale: Fisk and Her Jubilee Singers." Murfreesboro, Tennessee. August 2011.
Nashville Public Library Black History Series (Main Branch). Presenter. “Steppin’ to Survive: Black Greek Letter Organizations and the Public Square.” Nashville, Tennessee. February 2011.
Conference of Tennessee Historians. Panelist. Civil Rights Roundtable. Lebanon, Tennessee. September 2010.
Vanderbilt and the Nashville Sit-In Movement: A 50-Year Retrospective. Panelist. Panel Discussion. Nashville, Tennessee. February 2010.
Panelists included: The Reverend James Lawson; John Seigenthaler, founder of the First Amendment Center at Vanderbilt and publisher emeritus at The Tennesseean; Dr. John Sergent, professor of medicine and 1964 Vanderbilt graduate; Susan Ford Wiltshire, professor of classics, emerita; and Charles Roos, professor of physics, emeritus.
29th Annual Conference on African American History & Culture. Presenter. “Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Institutional Responses to Student Activism in the Nashville Movement.” Nashville, Tennessee. February 2010.
Social Science Dissertation Fellow Lecture. Presenter. "New, But Not New Enough: Black Nashville in the First New South." Nashville, Tennessee. April 2008.
The Southeastern Commission for the Study of Religion's (SECSOR) 2007 Southeastern Regional Meeting. Presenter. "Kelly Miller Smith: The Roots of an Activist and the Nashville Movement." Nashville, Tennessee. March 2007.
7th Annual Graduate Conference on African American History. Presenter. "From Sorrow to Song: The Life and Lessons of Original Jubilee Singer Ella Sheppard Moore, 1851-1941." Memphis, Tennessee. September 2005.
VU Department of History Second-Year Talk. Presenter. “The Color Divide in the Emergent Black Man's Party: The Political Strivings of the Bahamian Colored and Black Middle Class in the Progressive Liberal Party, 1953-1963.” Nashville: Tennessee. April 2005.
HBCUstory. Nashville, Tennessee, Founder and Executive Editor (2012 -).
Conceptualization and management of HBCU story brand; editor, liaison, responsible for organizational administrative and fiscal oversight; strategic direction; management of volunteer staff; choosing areas of coverage, and securing quality resources to assist with the developmental process. 100+ stories posted to date.
The National Association for the Preservation of African-American History and Culture, Inc. (NAPAAHC). Tallahassee, Florida, Board of Trustees (2015 - 2017).
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Scholar (2015).
Tell Them We Are Rising: The Story of Historically Black Colleges and Universities spans 170 years of American history. The two-hour film and multi-platform project by award-winning documentary filmmaker Stanley Nelson, explores the pivotal role HBCUs have played in the ascent of African-Americans and their families – from slavery to the present day. The film also examines the impact HBCUs have had on American history, culture, and national identity.
New Leaders Council – Nashville. Fellow (2014).